The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-24
TINES HAVE CHANGED.
EFFECT OF THE INTERSTATE LAW
ON THE CITY EDITOR.
Tho Old-Tirne Puff Suppressed-How
Grasping Monopolies Must Be
Handled Hereafter
TcjI


o,d laid upon the city editors desk the re-
,Ilt of his days work. The city editor
.s,,ed the railroad reporter to be seated, and
taking the manuscript page by page, he
commented upon the copy as follows;
..Jones. | see you speak of O. w. Ruggles,
Eeo rs being the amiable and accomplished
General passenger agent OF the Michigan
9or,+raI railroad. and say that he has just
iLe,1ed another of his elegant brochures for
summer tourists. Did | ask you to run
pround town looking for brochures when
Li,.o1 Won to do the railroad Work for this
paper Are you paid tor ealing me qJten-
t;o,' If the public to the fact that Mr.. O.
X Rupoles is amiable and accomplished
Toi,,nss not. Not if / understand the policy
II tLis naper. Had you kept posted in your
b,,sinoss and observed the workings OF the
Interstate commerce bill you would have
written this item thus:
go W. RuggleS, who calls himself the
general passenger ana ulckeJ agent OF the
N;chionn Central railroad although that
road HASN'T had any passengers and hasn't
sold any tickets since April y, has just issued
o,,othar of his screeds about summer travel.
T'be road will need the money which Rug
orias Is snending so recklessly and foolishly
70 assist in meeting its per cent. dividends
next month Our advice to Ruggles is to
let literature alone and look after the wheezy
locomotives on his passenger trains before
they break down with chrome asthma.
.IDo YOU catch on"
eyes. but Mr. Ruggles is one of the most
genial" ,,
cassor Yesterday for using the word genial
in speaking of general passenger agent.
Now look here, what is this! You say:
h 1Mr James Charleton. the veteran General
81 +ba
railroad. has Just selected a new Telegraph
\ as an advertisement for his line (by all odds
\ the shortest to St Louis, Kansas City or
4 Denverl which will excel i'll magnifcence
q anIthino of the kind heretofore attempted
q on this hemisphere Where did you get all
q this information, and how much did it cost
Il vou9 Look here, if you understood your
N business this is the way you would write an
item of that klnd'
W'One James Charleton, who claims to be
4 connected with the passenger department of
bob-tail fy-by-night railroad company
q doing a small business between this city, st.
Il Touis Kansas City and other Western
81 towns. threatens to flood the country with a
a lot of cheap chromoS as an advertisement
for himself and the company he processes to
q represent. We have reason to believe that
these pictures are job lot, purchased at a
recent auction sale of defunct printing
Il office in Buffalo. They were originally in
81 tended to be used as posters for a
dime museum It is an outrage
upon public taste and public morals that
q Charleton and men of his stamp should be
81 permitted to scatter these back-number show
81 bills over the country. The road which he
pretends to represent is hidden by prairie
grass and weeds five miles from town, and
passengers who are gulled into travelling
q over it must be prepared to make nine
tenths of their trip by stage. The hve-mile
~ washout, which occurred on the road last
summer, has not yet been repaired, and the
cabooses, which it used for passenger cars,
have not been swept out since they were
borrowed from the Car Trust Company
W What Charletons alleged road needs is not
autographs but pickaxes and spike-drivers.
"Doyou see the ideap
"f see what you mean; but the Chicago
vi and Alton is one Of the most reliable roads
in-n
There you go again. Another of your
predecessors was discharged for using the
word reliable in connection with the rail
roads centering in Chicago. What do see
here! We are informed by Mr.. Paul Nor
ton, the able and efficient general passenger
agent Of the Chicago, Burlington and Quin-
cy railroad that new lightning express
81 train between Chicago and Omaha will be
"a put on this road next Monday 1t will re-
# duce the time about three hours, and will
| undoubtedly capture nine-tenths of the
M passenger traffic between the two cities
8 Now, that's daisy. Morton must have
thought you a beautiful mark when he
81 stuffed you with that. Now, if you arc
81 gong to remain on this paper you must re-
member that it isn't edited by Mr.. Pau
8 Morton, nor managed by the Chicago, Bur
nngton and Quincy. l shall have to reWlite
that item in this style:
THE cheerful intelligence has lust reached
us mat the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad IS at length going to put on a train
peVNeen chicago and Omaha, which will
reacn us destination i'll less than six months
after Its departure. This will prove to be q
great convenience to the few persons who
sun rlsK Their lives by patronizing this road
Its Ihey Will no longer be compelled to carry
canned provisions with them, and may leave
mere as late as July without running any
rsK OF beng snow-bound before reaching
olnaha' Still the march of Improvement
goes on. We shall next hear that the Chi
@go, Burlington and QNincy has decided &c
t ~ trl,weekly suburban trains for the bene
Av ..r, the Norwegian settlers along its line.
a. mere said the city editor, 81 thinh
VA. Iat Will suit Mr.. Morton. | hope it will
aso suit Judge Cooley. When YOU car
Glle railroad item in that style I viii
lave lave some cards printed for you. All here
}oa We GOT an accident on the Rock Island
~ lNtltlo. All dCC1OeUb OCt
vIred on the Rock Island near Tompkins
n we about o'clock yesterday afternoon
"ucl resulted in the death of an engineer
gpl fireman. 1t seems that the passenpe,
a.e neTe at D p. m. ran into the rear end OF
so meishC traln awaiting orders at the sta
w .a' FOR some reason the freight
,.a not side-tracbed. No blame at
lines lines TO the employees, and certainly none
~ %ne company, as the Rock Island is known
~ S ,f- one OF the best managed railroads il
Se uhited States. Mr. +. st. John. the dis
s s'S3 IuShed and scholarly assistant manager
So nov ~, 10 reporter for this paper that he did
s rys olaine me engineer and fireman, as the,
on,Hnehtly DID their utmost TO prevent th5
lia ,tnoa l. Mr. st. John also said that he be.
rr' 'vu tnere was fog at the time. which
s, o,gil yea the passenger from seeing tb,
, 9nal displayed at the station. The renorto,
j"lsOed that the collision was entirely ac
d,rJ...uu aud foreordaincd' Now, that's ,
M i'ein Tor live and entelprisinc news
fr&oL sI u 1t: Do you know that we ar,
Warj +l III the nineteenth century: and 10
for ,, vne close Of III Are YOU aware that
Der,, i,lnlauCn cuts no figure before coro
tr,byy uIgo these days, Can Won tell th,
Tcba Row on earth did You allow 81
Eoi, w. idl You with sugar drops of finn
yon w NAT sort Of a head have Won rot on
'l ..',.as dictate: f''i'0' '''''
bor1fie ''erday afternoon another Of thos,
airrei Mn ul,elaents which have Of late oc